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Originally Posted by Petrucci
Thanks for posting this Sol. I have been running horrific for huge stretches this year (logged 600 hours+ so far), and i have asked myself several times why i keep doing this to myself on my drives home at night after games. Like i sit in games with huge possible EV due to big fishes/whales in the games: only to get sucked out on in ridic fashion time after time when i manage to get into dream spots EV wise.
Like last night when i got a whale to 4 bet pile 150 blinds pre into me with 5-6 off, because he was tired of me 3 betting him. I call pretty quick with 1010, only to see him turn 2 pair on me and scoop.
Or when i finally flop topset 5 ways in position on 10-7-5 rainbow, and bet all streets only to see whale bink runner runner straight with 99 and scoop.
Its extremely mentally challenging over several hundred hours stretches to keep logging hours, keep getting into huge EV spots only to see the money get shipped to your opponent.
I kind of know how you feel. I've had two 50+/hr years in a row, about 1000 hrs total, but this year nothing seems to be going my way, about 250 hrs in. I'm still up a little bit, basically because I've played a couple of hours in a bigger game than my usual stakes and won some money there, but overall I'm currently at zero BB/hr, and one or two bad sessions away from going into the red. I feel like I just can't beat the game anymore. Luckily I've only ever considered myself an okayish player at best and I'm well aware that, even though I'm truly running horribly, I still have only myself to blame for a good deal of my losses, so I don't necessarily feel entitled to anything either. But poker is definitely not much fun these days, that's for sure.
I'm still hoping my luck will turn and I'll catch a few breaks here and there soon, though. As long as I keep learning from my mistakes (or at least try to lol), things will eventually get better. Right?